The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The " winter of discontent" seems to be setting in upon us with unwonted earliness and rigour. On both sides of the Channel " the Prince of the powers of the air" is letting loose his Ministers in all directions. In the Irish horizon, O'Connell, with his precursory blasts, is endeavouring to act the part of a political monsoon. The sheet lightnings of Father Davern are flashing vividly in the same sphere. An angry storm appears to be gathering in the manufactur ing districts of Yorkshire under the impetuous abettorship of that ill-used man, Mr. Oastler, whose intemperate opi nions have been stimulated beyond all reasonable bounds by the indirect persecution he has received from the Poor law Commissioners—while, to extend the catalogue of dis asters still further, Mr. Thos. Attwood is doing what he can to rekindle the political furnaces of Birmingham, which, in spite of that capricious bellows-blower, had almost entirely died out. What may be the ultimate consequences of these calamitous and conflicting portents it is not very easy to conjecture ; but their more immediate effects are already realized, in the establishment of the Precursor As sociation for aggravating the disorders of Ireland, and also in the revival of political unions among ourselves, for work ing gnew the deprecated " pressure from without." With ,regard to the anti-Poor-law movements of Mr. Oastler, his ialschievoui. doctrine, encouraging the poor to assert their .right to suitable sustenance by physical force, may be looked upon, we think, as comparatively harmless. That the great body of English artisans, to whom he mainly addresses him self, can ever be betrayed into the folly and danger of formally arraying themselves against the civil and mili tary forces of the country, is surely as little credible as the pertinacious adherence of their well meaning adviser to the counsels he has incautiously given them. In this kingdom, any attempt to get rid of obnoxious laws by violent and insurrectionary means must not only end in calamitous failure, but will probably have the effect of post poning their repeal or modification for many years to come. Among the comfortable and affluent classes by whom the grievance of such laws may not be extensively felt, there is often a corresponding want of sympathy with the more im patient sufferers who resort to unconstitutional modes of redress ; in virtue of which, resistance takes the place of co-operation and demands, otherwise reasonable, are con demned to hr pless repulses, from the reprehensible turbu lence wherewith they chance to bo prosecuted. The operatives of Yorkshire are wise enough to know this ; and their ardent friend at Huddersfield is, we re sure, much too ingenuous not to confess and act upon it. How the Precursor Association is faring over the water we hive, as yet, but slender means of knowing. Even in Cork, alcordiLg to the Ulster Times, its numerical success h a s — fallen considerably short of O'Connell's artful boastings : though, considering that its multiplicand is workable by a servile priesthood of 7,000, i is not improbable that, even with the large divisionary abatements warranted by its founder's exageerations, the quotient after all may be fur from inconsiderable. Be this as it may, the Radical pilgrims of England, notwithstand iefe the repeated bliehts to which they have been subjected by the great Irish monsoon, have set out once more in the ca.aven of Mr. Thomas Attwood on the overland short cut to Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffra g e. Having ;started fro:n Birmingham with a tolerably decent meal, tbri are to stop to-day to take refreshments in Westmin ster ; aod, certaiuly, if their progress, rations, or welcome should proee in the least degree disappointing to themselves, it is not the funk of their outoceuts and pion; era. To se cure is" glorious triumph" every conceiveble effete his been ;rade, Advertisements Nvitinut number—types of untoreal ras a enitude.-1 syllabus of piquant quality—and, ls:ly, amino in, ivhcse cflieial eharieter as high-bailiff may be expected to impart both novelty and order to the a:sern blage—all these expedients have beeo timeously resorted to in order to prevent matters from going off flat. In short, the Biran'nerham and Westminster rumps ere to here a royal and rampant day of it. Whole butts of Powell Buxton's heavy wet are to be upon the groarol in prime taro V. Wade, the Radieel sinecurist, end Mr. Queffe, the jeuree ) men ta;ior, and all the elite of • Marylebone Workhouse-tad d, are expected to take part in the proceed ing-J. The ad‘oca,::v of an unrestricted potato crop in prafc rence to Corn-law resi,-aints is coaamiited to Mr. Murphy. An unlimited ferocity co the subject of political bars is intrusted to Mr. Sewage, the publieaa. It is not improbable flea the Birmingham bellows-blower may be present in persona to point out the best method of gving expre:eion to the keys and crochets of lis oten ftvotuite inetrument ; but what it will ail end in 'oust be left to Heaven and the High Bailiff. Judging by Mr. Attwood's pu ' o nehed entleipatione respecting it, we are warranted is, ~x p ,,,,ting a terrible political " terripe3t." " The people," that is, Mr. Quaffy aThresaid, and his professional frater nity of Te,oley-street, arc to " rise in the legal sal peaceful majority of their strength," and they are both " to deneend and insure indemnity for the past, and security for the future." The official and business-like air with which the cracked Monetarian professes to ride and control this coming storm of his must, we thhek., be deeply affecting to his friends ; to ourselves, of course, it is only comical. " It is not /,"says he, " who have raised the tempest. lam but an humble instrument of the public will ; borne, like others, before the fury of the public pa ssions, and directing them, as far us possilale into wholesome ends." There is, however, one important announcement which lie takes care to make. Whatever designs may be cherished by his fellow-levellers, lie very distinctly and compassionately says, " The Crown and the Aristocracy of the Church shall receive no injury from me." For this considerate intimation the Queen and the Bishops will doubtless be duly thankful. But the Corn laws, the currency system, and the non-enfranchisement of the Brummagem forgernen—God help the Wight that shall dare to vindicate any such things. To the advocates of sound common sense the pledge against receiving an injury does not extend. But the High Bailiff will be present— Ihere is some comfort in that.—limes. We learn from the Leeds Mercury that the clothiers atteneing the Leeds cloth balls are directing their attention to the subject of the Corn-laws, under a strong and just im pression that those laws operate most injuriously on our manufactures, and encourage the rival manufactures of Damp° and America. We learn farther, that it is proba ble a meeting will soon be held in Leeds originating with this c l as s ; and that the other manufacturing towns and villages will also express their opinions on the subject. Our Contempoaary speaks with approbation of the disposition which is felt to establish associations for obtaining an aboli tion of the Corn-laws. The present time seems peculiarly favourable for the successful agitation of this important nue.stion ; for an overwhelming necessity will alone influence the landowners to do justice to the rest of the community, and ;be starving families of mechanics and labourers supply powen"ol motives for zeal and energy on the part of the op ponents of the Corn-laws. If we do not succeed in freeing ourselves iron: this oppressive burden at a time like the present we shall never succeed. We must, therefore, strike while the iron is hot. There is but one way of speaking to the aristocracy on this subject to which they will pay the least attention. The Leeds Mercury justly observes that— " The Corn-laws are a systern for transferring the land cwi:er's share of the national bursie.ls from his own shoulders to those of the manufacturers, mercinznts, and consumers general,;'. They are a system for increasing RENTS at the expense of PROFITS and LABOUR. They give the landlords a monopoly of She . home market, in order to enabl e them to get a nolopoly pr,:e from the consumer. They compel the con sumer to pay a sbilling for the same loaf which on the Con tinent he may buy fur sevenpence or eightpence." It is farther observed, and with perfect truth that— " If England had no trade beyond her own territory, this would be an unjust, oppressive, and absurd system; but when a great part of our population is engaged in manufacturing for foreign markets, and is, therefore, in immediate and in cessant competition with all other manufacturing countries, the oppressiveness and absurdity of the system are greatly ag gravate!. it is as if the owner of a race-horse should load his own horse beyond what the rules of the course required." We have often remarked that a nation which eeeports manufactures cannot indemnify itself by raising prieesof ma nufactures in proportion to the increased price of corn. The fore'ener will not pay the English manufacturer more for itis goods than he pays to others for theirs, merely because t o pays more for his food. The price, however, which th e manufacturer obtains abroad determines the price at borne ; for no man would export goods to obtain less for them that he can obtain at home. While a country ex ports mantofactures the landlord has the benefit of buying these manufaanres at a lower price than they arc sold at to foreigners by them. The th e amount of freight and other charges English Landowner, therefore, while he ob -011 t e ios by monopoly a &tibiae price for the produce of the which 'los requires from ustice should our artisans soil, buys. everything at the leery lowest r ate. It is time that this inj ceas e. V.re entreat. men . of . proerty and influence, districts, , td put themselves in the • inenue'actimn.g. to guide it to o successful end. at the head of the ogitation, j ull, a siren,* and 9. pull alto- We must have a tee p d skiliallyeaccregaonflztelicei i p a r n o d c o of v . : ) n .it e ig gether. By judicious a l: are shall be able to act o n Cho pru:i: When the people ere 'l to avoid all violence an d conoes.on. of a . see t.. there is a reasonable prospec.t n end being put to this . e e tee make such iniquitous burden, they will remain patient onoor their suffei-ings. It is only common pal cri ti, a power ful de :sionstration as will at once s the hearts of our' aristocratic oppressors. 'ioe / e a .1 1 'tl cury grope, es wr SIC argument which has been u sed to dailCh the working class_ from the opponents o f the Urn- laws : if bread wir( to Le "ilizrtiun, and time- Alit, say tlie agricultural cbraper, wa;..tes would fall in :be same fore the working - classes would be no gainers. -‘lsicm, let it be obscrced how important a corices!,. argument necessarily involvrp. It implies, of necessity that the working classes wc:uld, in the first instance -at lea t, receive a larger snpply of good in return for their labour than they do al present. This i. admitted ; and, it - we mis take uf. - ,t, the wol-king - &asses will think this a very sub- this stantial advantage. Their present wages would, with a lower price of corn, purchase a considerably larger quantity of bread. And why should wages afterwards be lowered ? If the profits of the masters should increase, as they would by an extended trade, there would be no necessity for lowering wages. Nay, the extension of the trade, by increasing the demand for labour, would keep up the price ; so that the masters could not lower wages if they would. There are always two parties to the reduction of wages; the work men are one of those parties, and we scarcely need say that they would not submit to a reduction unless they found it ne cessary. Now, an increasing trade would prevent this neces sity. It would improve the profits of the masters, and better enable them to pay fair wages. " If we were to admit the argument of the agricultural ad vocates in its fullest extent, it would only go to this, that the workmen would not gain by a repeal of the Corn-laws. No one pretends that they could possibly lose iv that measure. But we do not admit the argument as valid. If our foreign trade yields a good profit, surely there is a larger loaf to divide between the master and the workman than when the trade yields a scanty profit. There is no pretence for say ing that the master would or could secure the whole benefit to himself. On the contrary, the workmen would stand on the vantage ground of established wages—a most im portant advantage, from which it would be extremely difficult to remove them, even if there were any motive for so doing. But the master would not have this motive so long as he was enjoying the profit of an extended trade. It is possible that ultimately, when the number of manufacturing operatives be came equal to the demand, there rn;ght be some reduction of wages ; but this is not certain ; whilst it is certain that the immediate effect of the repeal of the Corn-laws would be to increase the real wages of the labourer, that is, to make his wages go further in purchasing the necessaries of life ; and it is equally certain that whatever tends to increase and to secure the trade of the country must tend permanently to the advan tage of the operatives who live by that trade." However, we are not much afraid of the sophistries of the landlord while the loaf is at its present price.—lllorn ing Chronicle. . . To the preservation of Authority in a Constitutiona Government, the first essential is the support of Public Opinion. Without this, laws may be passed by the ruling powers, coercive agencies may be employed to enforce their operation, tyranny may cast its victims into prison, or slaughter them in the field or on the scaffold, and, for the day, even freedom of thought may be punished as a crime, but in vain ! There is inherent in truth, justice, and liberty, a recuperative power, invincible alike to force and fraud, which, though prostrate for a time, sooner or later de veloping itself in proportion to the oppression which would crush it, rescues humanity from degradation and thraldom. The history of all countries, but especially of Great Britain, furnishes abundant evidences of the truth of this position. In the struggles of States amongst them selves, victory, influenced by a multiplicity of causes, may declare indifferently_ for any of the hostile powers ; but in the struggles of Authority with Opinion, when a State—its component parts revolting against each other— wars, as it were, with itself, however protracted the con flict, the result is never dubious, the will of the people— Puhlic Opinion—has ever been, and will ever be, trium phant. When a contrary issue appears to have taken place, it will be found on examination that what might be presumel to he Public Opinion had either from theigoorance or apathy of the people in reality no effective existence. But what we assert is, that Public Opinion, guided by in tellect and urged on by activity, is as irresistible as the fiat of destiny itself. Aaainst this it is madness for Authority, with whatever prestige surrounded, with whatever associ ations recommended, or whatever external agencies supported, it is rna Incas for Authority to dare a col liston. A fearful warning to all future time, and to all Governrue.et - s, of the consequences of thie madness was furnished at the close of the last century in the French revolution. At that time, Authority had many opportunities of malting a favourable compromise with O p i n i on ; but inebriated with long indulged excesses, it teemed concession, or coecedei only when Opinion, pro -d by opposition, had put forth fresh claims. It con to-day what would have contented yesterday, and red till the morrow what would hive been sufficient :r to-day. And thus never giving satisraction, differences t first of comparatiely easy ad;ustreent, at length became nreeoneilsble, the " mighty Opposites" came into deadly coelet, and, as might have been foreseen, Authority was annihilated. Noe let Opinion alone be blamed for the horrors which marked her triumph ; on the contrary, they may be regarded almost as the necessary result of over strained and oppressive Authority. Freed from tile shackles of ages, the human rniad ran wild iu its newly recovered freedom, it coated to the utmost heights and sunk to the lowest depths of its faculties ; for in justice to man's nature be it ever borne in mind, that if the horrors of the French revolution were appalling, in no other phase of its existence did the human mind ever exhibit more elevated and go:ilike attributes. The horrors of the revolution were an acci(lent, its glories were inherent in itself. At present, letoever, we merely refer to it as an instance of the incom petency of Authority to oppose effectual opposition to Opinion. Similar instances of a less marked, but not less conclusive character are to be found at home. Without reverting to former times let us adduce occurrences fresh in the memory of all. Authority for years refused Catholic emancipation, for years kept the country oscillating on the verge of civil commotion, till at length in its extremity seek ing to strengthen its position by an oath, which it had not the power to keep, it only made the impotence of its malevolence ludicrous, when irresistible Opinion enforced a compliance With the demands of justice. Authority for years, too, opposed a Reform of the representation, threw those who questioned its supremacy into dun geons, even brought some to the scaffold, and massacred others—as at Peterloo and elsewhere—without the formality of law ; yet Opinion ultimately exacted even greater concessions than these cruelties were per petrated to oppose. But why enumerate instances, when every political good which we enjoy has been at one time or another wrested from Authority by the force of Opinion ? We allude to the past only, that the circumstances of the present may be the better under stood. Authority and Opinion are now arrayed in mina tory opposition, and the first duty of every citizen is to effect their reconciliation, and bring them into friendly and harmonious action. We intend not to play the sycophant to either party, but to examine impartially the exigencies of the time, and guard against the evil consequences of having two principles, which should be auxiliary to each other, acting in perpetual opposition. Fortunately, we need not now fear the interruption of social order, how ever Mr. Oastler and the Times may labour to excite the masses to violence. The people of England have too much experience of their moral influence, to which they are already indebted for so many blessings, to be betrayed into violent action by the rabid declamation of fanaticism, or the incendiary suggestions of those seeking an opportunity or a pretext to exclude them from their rights, and perpe tuate their bondage. The advantage of peaceful over vio lent appliances in the improvement of political systems can not be better exemplified than by a contrast between this country and France. Great Britain, by the judicious and peaceful application of that mighty engine—Opinion, has effected more for the right of her citizens and for the in terests of liberty, without the sacrifice of a single life, than has France through the whole series of her sanguinary re volutions. But apart from the danger of violence, there are many points of resemblance between the present con dition of Great Britain and that of France prior to its first revolution, the most striking of which is the relative posi tions of the aristocracy, the Church, and the people. Ex clusion, aggression, spoliation, and hypocrisy, supported by ancient prestige on one side, a sense of wrong, intelligence revolting against injustice and cant, and supported by million numbers on the other. Different as may be the consequences and the mode of conflict, the victory can in neither case be doubtful. Looking thus on the success of the people as secure, we are more anxious to impress on the public the necessity of modera tion in the hour of triumph, than to urge them to enforce to their utmost limits those abstract rights which, how ever indisputeble in theory, and from the progres of in telligence and politiCal enfranchisement for the last few years, we might a dd, cer t a i n o f u l t i ma t e a ccomplishment, could not be immediately consummated without causing a con cussion of existing interests which it might be more desirable, and undoubtedly safer, to avoid. We arc not, nor are the British people, so anxious for great and rapid strides in the movement of reform, as for safe, sure, and steady progres sion ; nor do we believe that th e mighty manifestations now making in all parts of the kingdom would ever have had existence, if even a moderate share of justice had been conceded to the people in th e l ast four sessions. Had even the Ballot been conceded, which would have given opportunity to the present constit uenc y t o g i ve ex pression to their real sentiments in the election of repro, sentatives, the people would for years have been contented with the partial effect which would thus he given to their wishes in the legislature. But the delay of justice has merely enlarged the limits to which it will now be en forced. Still we should prefer taking a position that may be practically sustaieed; to one which expedi e ncy ma y ren der of uncertain stability. Public opinion will this day proclgirri itself in Westminster, Palace-yard will send forth a voice which will make St. Stephen's ring with a reluctant echo, a sel Rven the Lords themselves, though the precaution we believe has Keen taken to prevent public meetings in their Luie ity during the of Parliament, will be compelled ilea' s Assembly, to re ' by the r eeerberation from thi s fromtheir wont, the neo assemble. We have no ceive in . a manner fee different besides Ike reasons already lamasepinion when they Be the result, however, what apprehension of viole . nce, for, tvitl a feeetioes actor obsers es of the fair clai ms of t h e we duel--" there s a i hl nn fear withheldre it may, it is those o be no oect::! se . or °messed them and either cajoled, betray. ... 1 , . by Pi •-• • _ .• ,-;10 , who arc solely reepense - -.7 for itc‘ mere Ineel'E.lL -- , -4 . •stotion. - 1 11 erning Adpcidiser. irreseettuis Leen s present • •' of eineer-Leer, which is typified in The peletteas botae vV c c , cte the meeting of the Working Men's Association, will be this day opened in Palace Yard. To legalize the pro ceedings, the High Bailiff of Westminster is to draw the cork—all England is to be startled by the pop--and among the people (we can at least credit this part of the mani festo) the froth is to run over in exuberant abundance. We can easily imagine the whirring, and spitting, and fizzing, that is likely to ensue, for the stuff is well fer mented, the bottle is fairly up, and has made sufficient. noise previous to the cutting of the string to allow of the inference that it will not go off without a moderate explo sion. In the result, however, we do not precisely see any thing alarming, although Government Papers are writing about it in a visible spirit of trembling,and although some of their Correspondents would persuade us that the Tories are trembling too. For instance, a writer in the Globe says— " The approaching congregation of the Radicals in Palace yard on Monday next, is looked forward to with feelings of the most opposite kind by the Radicals themselves, and by the Tories. The Radicals look forward to it with joy—tbe Tories with grief. The Radicals think it will be a glorious triumph for their party, and the Tories think that it will be a bittfr discomfiture to theirs." ' With all deference to the sapience of Cupid's Corres pondent, we beg to assume that the - Tories are exactly the parties who not only do not think of it with grief and dis comfiture, but who do not think of it at alb L--or if they do, regardit just as a'sort of collision of mob versus Ministers, which the latter g,entry, ; have brought upon themselves. The Tories have nothing to do with the, affair.. They have never taken part in oridentified themselves with any mea sure to set up a democracy, and destroy the existing insti tutions of the country ; and, therefore, they have nothing to fear from, or care about, a demonstration avowedly got up for the hastening of such purposes. But Cupid's im partial friend, in pourtraying an imaginary state of mind for Tories and Radicals upon the occasion, ingeniously from hinting at the feelings of the Whig Minis ters. Now, we confess, it occurs to us that these are the most implicated of all—and if with the fear and jealousy inspired within them by the " demonstration" are not blended some consciousness of crime and folly, and some twingings of self-reproach—the materials of their political heart must be hard in proportion to the softness of the head. They found among the lowest and most ignorant of the community a festerirg spirit of insubordination and re bellion against not only our wisest laws, but against the essential spirit of our Government, and the principles of our limited monarchy—for years they encouraged it to serve party purposes, and novr they begin to discover that the poultices they have been from time to time applying have brought things to a bead which they are weak enough to regard as ernim•nt:y dangerous. The Tories—with all the terrors of Palace-yard in their mind's-eye at pre sent—think no such thing ; but they vie not the less assured that Ministers deserve all the consummation which they fear. They have been mob-worshippers for power, and they have no right to complain of finding themselves mob-slaves. Formerly they were always telling the people that their mob -meetings, or, as they then used to call them, " their glorious displays of moral and and physical power," could and would carry all the boons which the Whigs (could they but become Ministers), were anxious to bestow upon them. Now, when they have got place and are ready to make any sacrifice to keep it, but when they find themselves inconvenienced in it by an out cry on the part of the lower orders for more than they bar gained to give them, they change their tone, and declare (in the words of the Globe's correspondent) that although to meet in such assemblies" it is their privilege—it is their right—there may be circumstances which make the exer eiS3 of that privilege, or that right, not only extremely injudicious, but exceedingly wrong"—they put it, " whether the Radical meeting, on Monday next, be not a case in paint." And they ask "by this meeting, by the late liirmin4hdin meeting, or by any other meeting they may choose to boll, will the success of their cause be advanced one jot nearer to the goal for which they are aiming ?' When we reflect that such ram has avowedly for its ultimatum the establishment of a democracy and the active operation of measures and principles subversive of monarchy and social order. We say " God forbid !" hut we are not the less certain that, were such means as these meetings to produce such mischiefs as they are in tended to produce, the guilt and the responsibility would lie, with a bitter though well-deserved retribution, at the door of the Wuig place-seekers, who organised and encou raged that system of agitation, and taught the people absurdly to think that the only mode of vindicating their moral paver was by displaying their physical force. We must rep-at, however, that we do not partake of the anxiety which the Globe and other Ministerial organs vainly attempt to conceal under an affected fearlessness and indif ference—anxiety which, however, has less reference to the one meeting which takes place to-day in Palace-yard than to the organised system cf agitation which seems to threaten the Ministers with the loss of their places if they do not accede to the preposterous demands of those who would lon g crc this have turned them out—with the peculiar gra titude of mobs and mob leaders—if the Conservatives had not interposed to preserve them in seats which the Morn ing Chronicle is alike boastful and admiring that they still co.:tinue to occupy. Au resle, when the meeting has trans pired we may have more to say on the subject.—Morning -Post. A short time since Lord Lewisham, the eldest son of Earl Dartmouth, on attaining his seventeenth year, gave a trsat to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, and the oppor tunity was seized upon to send forth to the world a good deal of Conserrative talk. Every cock, says an old English adage, can crow upon his own dungheap ; and the truth of the adage was proved at Bromwich on this occasion.-13ri9hton Herald. A few days ago a gentleman, whilst on an excur sion in the mountains at a few leagues' distance from Cler mont Ferrand, made a providential discovery of a young female child, deserted by its inhuman parents, and left to perish in a state of complete nudity in an excavation among some rocks. He immediately proceeded with the object- of his solicitude to the nest village, and made his declaration tc the authorities. The strictest inquiries have been set on foot by the Procureur du Roi of Clermont to discover the barbarous parents of the child, but hitherto all the attempts made to bring them to justice have proved unavailing. PIRACY AND MURDfR.—The sailors whom we stated to have been arrested at Emden, in Hanover, after the wreck of their vessel off Borkum, have confessed that the ship was the Braganza, of Norfolk, whose captain, it will be recollected, was murdered by the crew, who afterwards robbed the passengers, and embarked them in the longboat, from wkich situation they were released by a vessel belonging to Scar borough. A full account of this act of piracy and murder was given on the Ist instant, under our shipping head. A general commercial agent in Bordeaux , named Serafen, was assassinated in the streets of that city on Sun day night, from motives, it is believed, of private vengeance. He was stabbed several times in the back with a poniard. A young man, hearing his cries, came to his assistance, but the unfortunate man expired aeon after being conveyed to the Hospital. His assassin has not been discovered. An interesting discovery has been recently made by M. Ernest Alby, while examining the 900 folio volumes of manuscripts of the Deputy collection, preserved in the Royal Library, of the autographic and unpublished correspondence between Catherine of Bourbon, Princess of Navarre, and her brother, henry IV. These letters are said to be full of inte resting details of the private life of that Princess, and of her resistance to the religious zeal of her brother, who endea voured to induce her to abjure the reformed religion. The Minister of Public Instruction has authorised M. Alby to publish these documents, which throw quite a new light on parts of the history of the 16th century. ROYALTY AND LONGEVITY.—The Bon Sens r w e i m il a i, rks tha t, on attained thhies 66th8 t h o y f October, ear,being tb K e in fi g ni t Loufuis the Philippeorlea us famAilyftehwat days ever l a iv g e u d , t a o that a beautiful ge milk-white jay was shot at Woodlands, near this town, and a rose coloured thrush was also killed at Bawtry.--,Doneaster Gazette. LIGHTNING.---On the evening of the sth instant th;lingeehts o lightning struck and Fort L having agar thrown d e t , r a o tP n dratozwdn part of a wall, au eA I o 11 o ,int he prn, entered a room in the barracks, were seven men of the sth Light Infantry were asleep, each on his own bed, killed three cf them instantaneously, and deprived one of his sight, and otherwise seriously affected him. The rest were injured, but more slightly. The fluid passed down through the floor, and in the room beneath wounded a sergeant. This is the fur thest point south at which we have heard of anything like the storm which affected the north of France at the same moment ag w e e s a , ,e a rs t tilnte town n te being felt. on l f Saturday lt . per their r th w e An all , :ct . ' a i s t ipoani paid t o . t a b l e , SUPERB SPECTACLE.--There was to be seen this shilling, n an b d oa n st ot o a f, si v i :;. l , e s a li fi ea v f e led till it week, at Wheatley, near Gainsborough, a sight which perhaps antrose Review. hundred v ac er r was all down. It is called Wheatley field; there arc two others, each containing five hundred acres one sown with y e fieldfew counties,o%v h eat , i f all any, sh shorn, buns, the other is in fallow. —Hull Advertiser. THE WIT OF A SCHOOLBOY.---A short time since, as a well-known English master in a Grammar School was censuricg his pupil for the dullness of his comprehen sion, and conenting to instruct him in a sum in Pr ac ti ce ; he said—" Is not the price of a penny . loaf alw a y s a p enn y y when the buy i nnocen tly answered— ' No, Si*, the bakers vll them two for three halfpence when they are st a l e ." Many persons, who have lived all their lives in Li vapocl, are not aware that Snowdon and the Isle of Man are frequently visible with the naked eye from Everton and the neighbourhood of the town ; yet such is the fact. The Devizes Gazelle slates, that on the day of the exrcuticn tin.re, last v cee k, of the man named Mastic, no ,. a:ds of I,CGO persons were drank in I,ln, townwho had, corile i n to witness the execution. The same journal says, f` Silci :7C; nra of drunkenness and thhauchei,y we have scarcely before witnessed.!? INSECTS Or Tqr. GOLD cOAST.--A new s„e_ t. cies (.4 the Polt;ltb!.2.s beetle is an object of commercial as well las entomological vahle, as mu c h as 0 i. haviog heent ; iyo foi a F,pecinis.n. Formerly 201. to 25/. was an ordinary price. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1838. POLICE INTELLIGENCE POLICE COMMITTEE, GUILDHALL. Mr. Hicks, the deputy of Castle Baynard Ward, attended the Committee for the purpose of answering the charge made a few weeks ago by Mr. Williams, of Paternoster-row, against the watchmen stationed at the south side of St. Paul's Church yard. Mr. Williams, it will be recollected, complained that, as he was driving his niece in a gig through St. Paul's Church yard, on Sunday night, he was overturned by the racing of a cab and an omnibus, and that no watchman appeared to assist them, in consequence of which he was robbed of a great coat and a Mackintosh. The ward authorities immediately com menced an investigation, but in consequence of the absence of Mr. Williams's niece on one occasion, and the absence of Mr. Williams himself on account of illness on another, the question was postponed as regards the Police Committee ad judication till this day. Deputy Hicks was ready to prove, upon the oaths of the watchmen of the ward, that there ba d been no racing on the night in question, and that Mr. William's accident originated in that gentleman's indiscretion alone. A gentleman appeared as the friend of Mr. Williams, and stated that Mr. Williams was still unable to appear on account of severe illness, but was most anxious for a public in vestigation. A letter from Mr. Williams's niece was produced, and it was to the same effect. Mr. Hicks wished that the case should be heard at once, as the subject was now fresh in the public mind, and required to be decided speedily for the honour of the ward. The Aldermen, of whom there were several present, de cided, however, that so important a question should be post poned for a month, in order that Mr. Williams might have time to recover. QUEEN- S Q UA RE. Joseph Frantshein, a German, who described himself as a teacher of languages, was charged with illegally disposing of three handsome pier glasses and a Pembroke table, forming part of the furniture of a house which he rented. Samuel Stovie, clerk to Mr. Ayling, an upholsterer in Knightsbridge, in June last, let to the prisoner, a house called Park Cottage, situate in the King's-road, Chelsea; he acted as agent for the landlord, Mr. Bourdenave, who is at present on the continent. At the time of letting there were three large pier and chimney glasses in sepa rate rooms of the house, and it was part of the agreement that the glasses should remain as fixtures. The prisoner, who had represented himself to be highly connected, then ordered a quantity of furniture of Mr. Ayling, which was accordingly sent in. They had not, however, at the time of executing the order, the sort of table prisoner wanted, and it was agreed they should make one, and in the meantime lend him a table, which was done. In consequence of information witness received last week, he made inquiries, and ascertained that the three glasses had been removed to the shop of Mr. Hayer, a pawnbroker, in Paradise-row, Chelsea, as had also the ta ble. He accordingly went to the shop, and there saw the glasses and table. Witness informed the shopman that they had been illegally disposed of, and cautioned him not to part them. He again went on Friday, and was informed the glasses hal been removed. lie could not tell the exact value of the glasses ; the table was worth 3/. Jane Randall, charwoman, had frequently worked for the prisoner, and when she first went to the house the glasses were there. In the early part of this month, she remembered the prisoner removing one of the glasses from its fixture, pack ing it in a blanket, and, with the assistance of another man, taking it out of the house, and placing it on a wheelbarrow, and then going away with it. The others were also gone, but they were not taken in her presence. Woodberry, an officer of this establishment, deposed to a pprehending the prisoner, and asking him what he had done with the glasses, when he said the tickets were at his house ; he then searched him, and in his pocket found a duplicate for a table. After he had been brought to this office late on the previous afternoon, he gave witness a letter to a man of the name of Halliday, who, he said, would deliver up the glasses. He went by dir.!etian of that person to a pawnbroker, named Hayes, in Paradise-row, where he was told he would find the classes; but, upon his arrival there, he was informed that they bad been removed. Wm. Tighe, shopman to Mr. Hayer, stated that about a fortnight back the prisoner came to him, represented himself as a Colonel in the Prussian service, and stated that, in conse aence of his having failed to receive his usual remittance from abroad, he wanted to raise some money upon some of his household furniture. Witness agreed, and on the 3d of Sep tember a person named Halliday came with two pier.glasses from the prisoner, and a note in his hand-writing, signed John Groizen, in which he requested him to lend as much as pos sible on the articles. lie lent 3/. 10s. on each glass, and the man Halliday took the duplicates and money. On the 10th, Halliday brought another glass, on which he also advanced 3/. 103. He admitted that the witness Stovie told him that the property was not the prisoner's ; but the prisoner after wards came, and made such a plausible tale, that he hardly knew how to act, and when two parties came in the course of the day with the tickets andtendered the principal and interest, he let them have the glasses. With respect to the table, he was unable to bring that with him to the office. hall, the officer, here stated that he assisted Woodberry, his brother officer, in apprehending the prisoner, and while bringing him in a cart to the office they passed by the pawn broker's, and at the time they were doing so the prisoner said, " that is where I pawned them, there they arc ;" and upon his looking he saw the glasses exposed outside the door. He ( Hall) then stopped the cart, got out, and informed last wit ness that he must attend that afternoon at the office, and pro duce the property. He, however, failed to do so, and a sum mons was issued and served upon him to compel his attendance this day. Mr. Halliday was a broker, and living in Providence-place, Chelsea. He admitted having pawned the two first glasses, received the money and handing it over to the prisoner, who allowed him his per tentage. With respect to the glass last found, it was first taken to a pawnbroker's in the Fulham-road, who advanced £3 upon it. It was afterwards redeemed by Tighe (Hayer's shopman), who took it to his master's shop, and gave more money upon it than the other had done. He had since sold the tickets by direction of the prisoner, and he believed that the glasses were now in the sale room of Messrs. Foster, the auctioneers, in Pall-mall. Mr. Hosxtris remanded the prisoner till Saturday next, and directed that the glasses be impounded. Several tradesmen whom the prisoner bad duped then came ,forward to prefer charges against him, but upon a little inquiry they were discovered to be merely debts contracted, MARYLEBONE. Jem Burn, the well-known pugilist, John Clarice, Thomas Barher, and John King, were charged by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with aiding and assisting at a ferocious contest between two dogs, at a pit established by the " Fancy," at Southampton-mews, New-road. As there was a legal doubt as to whether Burn could be considered as aiding and assisting, he received the benefit of that doubt, and was acquitted. The other three prisoners were severally fined 51. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardeners' Gazette.) Turn up every piece of vacant ground for new crops, and manure it, if required, by digging it in. Sow all kinds of annuals (for early spring blooming) with a view to their being kept in frames during the winter. Continue to get in all crops that are to stand over the win ter months, or for winter use. Hoe turnips that ate forward enough. Examine all plants in pots previous to getting them into their winter quarters ; cut off any rambling shoots, tie them all to proper sticks, and into proper form. Pot all struck cuttings, and greenhouse and store-plants, in proper sized pots, for placing in the houses. Examine auricular, and see they are in a proper state of drainage ; re-pot any that are pot-bound,taking away the off sets, and leaving only the principal new-bed plant. If stock bs more desirable than strong plants, let the offsets grow on the plants some weeks longer. Look over the tulip-boxes to see that they are all dry and free from the green or black fly ; and, if not, fumigate them in a close apartment with tobacco smoke. If any of our brother editors must take this article, which they are perfectly welcome to do, we entreat them to acknow ledge where they got it from. We do not like to mention names, but there are some very careless. All operations mentioned in the last three or four weeks, and not done, should be done directly. THE VIVID.—This favourite steam-ship, under the command of Captain Agars, arrived in Hull on Friday morn ing at twenty-five minutes past six o'clock, having made the voyage in the incredible short space of twenty-two hours. In consequence of which extraordinary quick passage all the pas sengers for Leeds, Sheffield, &c., proceeded by the Thorne S e lby steamers, and thus prevented a delay of twenty-four hours in Hull, which the passengers by this vessel only avoided. --Hull Advertiser. THUNDER STORM.—Hatfield and the vicinity were o n Thursday last visited by a tremendous storm of hail and rain, a ccompanied by thunder and lightning. The:hail-stones lightning, o fM r. G were of uncommon size. About four in the afternoon an astounding clap of thunder shook almost every house in Duns croft, especially one detached cottage, so that the tiles ap peared to be loosened and falling from the roof ; the windows rattled, and almost every glass and piece of crockery were put a stack field wasof m s a e s t l i n ire the o propertyb by the .... o a o: d speedily c onsumed. —Doncaster Gazette. The Royal forest of Cavailloli, near' Avignon, was set on fire on the 25th ult., and soon enveloped the surround.. ing communes in a dense cloud of smoke. A i w n o lu rth t , i° a n s • ma l l n l was given, and many hundreds of people whoassembled, d eneral alarm the direction of the authorities cut down the trees which under sur rounded the part in flames, and thus prevented the the conflagration. The damage gone was great, and the fire wa s not extinguished till the next day. It was accidentally oc casioned by some charcoal burners. FARRINGDON MARKWf. — 491 ip alterations ntl itoprovements now in progress i n this i : market render ' it (Li!) , snore wtractive. It is intended that the m ade in the south-eaqm psvt t „; t i,, b k. .ip. uri , 774 ; 't' .,..( h./ 1L _,, v .,:, 4 . ) , g sualiar 11:y1 - Gramm - it in. the. : 7 : 1, 1 4 . t - tor I N i n t . re c,; , nt motion carried ja the City Count'"--"t"c". The the Newgate vegetable market i• I for the tra.r4pr 9t . .. , I,li:i pilot? I ' given • ' (p i'.4 trwle iits,to' ar ticipatea a few years , Lts a emir ar.d . conveni..i - xe not -_ol • t the salesmen since. The comfort y o saiesmerand but also of the inhabitants of Net• t i , purelizaers. set, yi .0 a l ,geinent, by the removal of the various el4Aes which foribei ly obstrutted that thoroughfare into a locality so Wide and convenient as that of Farringdon.street. HERRING TRADE Since our last report the herring fishing at Wick has been attended with tolerable success—the average for the week being twenty-five trans. It has continued to blow a hurricane, accompanied with slight showers, up to the time we went to press, and it is much feared the fishing is over for a season. The greater part of the Firth of Forth boats are already home, others are only waiting a favourable opportunity for taking their de- parture. The general average for the season is reckoned at 133 crane per boat. This is by no means a heavy fishing, but almost an average one. There is a short-come, however, of 15,000 crans, when compared with the quantity caught here last season, and we cannot point to any quarter where there has been an increase. Much has been said of the fishing at Anstruther. It is stated in some of the Edinburg Papers, that 17,000 crans have been caught there this year ; but, ad mitting this to be true, it can have no effect on the markets, as the whole season's take at Anstruther only amounts to one day's ishing at Wick. It was estimated that 'on the Bth August last, 17,000 crans were landed in the Wick district, being one day's catch. The fishing is fairly concluded fir a season at Heltnsdale— the best fished - station on this coast ; also on the west coast, from Thurso to Durneis; and this week is expected to ter minate the Orkney fishing. The two latter places, especially the north Isles of Orkney, have been very unproductive. The boats at Stronsay, upwards of 400 in number will not average above 30 crans each. In the south iiles the success has been better. At Clyth, Lybster, 'and Latheronwheel, the average is not so great as at first reported. At the latter place it will not exceed 80 crans. From Shetland, our Correspondent writes as follows : " Lerwick, Sept. 3.—The catch of herrings for the last week throughout the Zetland Isles was much better than the previous one, though it is still very partial, and at a very low average per boat. Monday a few boats were off, but, except at S.:al loway and Yell, few fish were brought on shore."—lnverness Courier. THE LATE TRAGICAL AFFAIR NEAR PRESTON. An inquest was held last week, at Inglewhite, about eigh miles from Preston, on the body of the woman, named San Berson, who poisoned herself, and on the bodies of her five children who were poisoned by her by means of a quantity of arsenic mixed in a flour pudding. The particulars connected with this tragical event have already appeared in The Sun. The Jury, after an inquiry, which lasted from eleven o'clock in the morning to half-past eight in the evening, returned the following verdict :—" As to Anne Sanderson, lunacy ; and as to the children, that 'Anne Sanderson, the mother, being an insane person, did mix the arsenic in the pudding, and that the children, not knowing of the poison, swallowed the puddtng and arsenic, and were poisoned thereby." The principal points in the evidence, as well as some inte resting particulars relative to the unhappy woman will be gathered from the following account, which we abridge from the Preston Pilot : " Those of our readers who perused the brief account of the painful transaction, as given in our last, would learn from it that Edward Sanderson, the husband of Ann Sanderson and father of the deceased children, is in the humble situation of a day labourer ; lowly, however, as his situation in life may appear in the view of some, the reader will find from the evi dence at the inquest, and especially from the testimony of the Rev. T. Bonn, the minister of White Chapel, that his character for honesty and integrity, and parental and congugal affection, is without reproach. His deceased wife, we under stand, was born in a rural district a few miles north of Lan caster, of parents rather above the working class, and when at school was always considered a girl- of somewhat su perior intelligence, but excessively fond of indulging in fancies of greatness and self-importance far beyond any scale that the probable events of her life would ever enable her to attain. After leaving school she took a situation in the Station Hotel, at Bowness, then kept by Mr. Lad) man, and she subsequently became a domestic at Quernmore-park, near Lancaster, the residence of the late Charles Gibson, Esq., and from the latter place she was married to Edward Sanderson. After this union, and during the lifetime of her mother, from whom she was in the habit of receiving admittances of money, it seems that she contrived to maintain a character of rather higher standing than that which is generally possessed b; , the wives of labouring men. This passion, however, for supe riority of appearance over those around her was destined to receive a severe check in the death of her mother, and happy had it Leen it she had improved it to make it a salutary one, in being taught by it to restrain her habits of inconsiderate ex travagance, and to have thenceforth depended on the more re stricted resources which her husband and herself were enabled to obtain iu the station of life in which they moved. But she did not so improve the event, for it seems that she adopted, instead, a system of cunning and contrivance from which she ex pected to he still enabled to assume a character of importance in the neighbourhood". These resources, then, which she had been in the habit of receiving from her mother, having been stopped, she next persuaded herself, or perhaps we should say, made it her endeavour to persuade others, that she was entitled to property of considerable amount, left to her by a relative, which she was to receive in London, and by this arti fice she succeeded in obtaining the loans of sums of money from numerous credulous persons. In one of her imaginings, at least so report says, she made her appearance at Kirkland Hall, and detailed a fabricated account of having been directed by some supernatural agency to apply to Mr. Butler Cole for the loan of 100/., for which she was prepared to give the most undeniable security. Of course the attempt failed ; but with persons of less sagacity her statements had too often the desired effect. Truth requires it to be made known, that her house was kept at all times distinguished for order and cleanliness, and her children for neatness in their appearance, and in gentility of manners, much beyond their play-fellows, the children of the other farm labourers in their neighbourhood. The arsenic, it will be seen, was purchased at Garstang, about two months ago, and as it was not used for so long a period, the providing it seems to have been an act of a very painfully deliberate character. With respect to the assertion of the wo man, that she used a part of the poison on the Wednesday, it is quite unsupported by any other testimony. She does not seem to have made any complaints of its effects upon herself, neither did any of the five children appear to have portaken of any poisoned food before Thursday. The Rev. Mr. Bonn speaks to a conversation he had with her in March last, when she stated that she had before that time determined upon de stroying herself and two children, but had been deterred from doing so by a warning given to her in a dream ; well had it been if this admonition had continued to be regarded with the attention she then gave it. We may properly mention here, that there is little doubt entertained that the horrifying project of destruction included a greater sacrifice of life than was actually made. Her husband was confidently expected to have been at his own house on that day at dinner, but was most providentially kept, by the state of the weather, at the farm-house where he was working. But even the addition of his life did not comprise the appalling catalogue of contem plated victims—a young woman residing near had been in vited to the feast of death, but she also was unavoidably kept away, and thus mercifully preserved from a premature grave. With respect to the quantity of poison mixed with the pudding there would be little danger in affirming that the whole of the two ounces purchased had been used. No remains of any were found in the house afterwards ; and the medical gentlemen, in their examinations and tests, found it so palpably present, as to leave no doubt on their minds of the quantity having been great. On the day on which the inquest was held, and the post mortem examinations of the bodies made, the quiet village of Inglewhite was an unvaried scene of crowded animation and bustle. On this, as on all such distressing occasions, the number of persons who flocked to get a sight of the shocking spectacle was very great indeed; and on the following day, Sunday, when the interment of the mother and children took place at Goosnargh Church, the quantity of persons in attendance almost exceeds the power of belief—it being ascertained by a moderate computation that there were from 2,000 to 3,000 present. The mournful pro.. cession was rendered most seriously imposing by the judicious regulations that had been adopted. The coffin of the mother, covered with a black pall, was borne first; and then followed those of the poor slaughtered innocents, covered with white sheets, in the precedency of their respective years. The last resting place of the mother and five children was one large grave, eight feet wide, six feet long, and five feet deep, the coffins being placed alongside of eachother. FATAL OCCURRENCE IN ST. PANCRAS-ROAD On Thursday a very lengthened inquiry took place, at the Two Brewers, St. Pancras-road, before Mr. Stirling and a moat respectable Jury, on view of the body of James Wooley, Esq., aged 39, a stock-broker of high respectability, who was killed under circumstances of a most appalling and lamentable nature. The Jury having been sworn, viewed the body of the deceased gentleman, which lay at the above house. A more appalling spectacle the imagination cannot conceive--the head of the unfortunate man was literally cleft asunder, and exhi bited a most heart-rending sight to all present. Edward Withen, of No. 8, Little Randolph-street, Camden -town, dc , posed that about ten o'clock on Wednesday evening ho ayes passing near the Old Church, in the St. Pancras-road, when he heard the voice of a person in a chaise, which was driving at a furious rate, call out " Steady, steady." Only one gen tleman was in the chaise. The horse appeared to iiitness to be quite unmanageable. On the chaise approaching the turn pike.gate in the road, witness observed the near wheel come in violent contact with Vle post of the gate, and the gentle man was instantly pitched cut, falling on his head against the post, and then fell to the ground. The horse and chaise after passing through the gate fell. Witneas ran to the gentleman, who was lying on the ground, and was horror-struck at ilia covering that his head was dashed to pieces, his brains being scattered around in every direction. Af;aistance was imme. diately obtained, and the body of the deceased was renteved to the above house. Thomas 'Reynolds, the Vail keeper, and others, were examined, but their evidf!noa merely went to prove the rapid rate the horse Wil,q g‘oia,gat at the time of the catas trophe. Yerdiet,,-Aceitiontal Death. ErFICIENCY OP TIE sicn of the business of the Gre i rad .jury at the late Surre- Sessions, the scives3,il the QouNt, and saiel . .: nat 1 0): blo i ) F e :,;4 their eLtire up_ probation of the F.e.al and activi:: eiaplaied by the Metropoli tan police in the 7,l.l,i \ ri:Lel i siGli ofF,•!.ders, a n d al so w i t h t h e means, in which diffurent policemen examined b a d g i ven Ehir eViSence. AN AN,U',IITOAN JURY'S, 'METHOD n RETURN - A VERDICT.—It i 3 tile practice almost all over our try . for tl:c jury to chalk., that is, every- man chalks doll,' 9n Cle wall Lis vote, one man 10!., a at:ther 20. k., another col., and anotherbl., and so on, and then they a,.:(1 the m a ll t y an d divide by 12, and that makes the yardict.—Sum SECOND EXPERIMENTAL ASCENT OF THE NASSAU BALLOON, (ABRIDGED FROM MR. GREEN'S NARRATIVE.) This ascent was made from the Royal Garden's Vauxhall, on Monday afternoon, and, from the success which attended the experiment of the preceding Tuesday, attracted a large as- semblage of spectators. We proceed to gin Mr. Green's version of the proceed ings : " On Monday last Mr. Rush made arrangements with the proprietors of the Vauxhall-gardens for the ascent to take place on that afternoon, that gentleman, of course, engaging the car for the occasion. The time allowed for preparation was necessarily very limited, in consequence of the proposition to effect the object on that day not reaching me until acout 12 o'clock in the afternoon. However all that could be done in that respect within the shortness of time was accomplished. Everything in the shape of preliminary having been effected , I released the balloon from its moorings at half-past 6 o'clocic, by means of the liberating iron, and rose from the earth witk an ascending power of 1121 b. The direction we took on leaving the Gardens was N. N. E. , and so continued during the early part of our upward course, but on reaching the elevation of 11,000 feet, we became to tally stationary for a minute or two as regarded any forward progress. I then threw out two bags of ballast, which gave us an astonishingly increased rising power. :Another current now took us, and we were driven backwards nearly due south. We continued to rise with great rapidity, and in a few minutes a different current drove us from west to east. The whole of this time I was throwing cut ballast as fast as I could. When we attained an elevation of 16,000 feet, about three miles, We got into a current which was blowing with considerable violence at the rate of about 60 miles an hour. The course of this current was north by west, and it was under the influence of that wind we were carried to our ultimate destination. It will be seen by the extract from the journal kept by Mr. Rush end myself, that we attained an altitude exceeding that of any mountain in the world, and yet I am able to say that that gentleman did not experience the slightest difficulty in h►s respiration from the diminished density of the air. In short the only inconvenience Mr. Rush sustained arose from the occasional sudden escape of the gas from the lower valve dur ing the balloon's rapid ascent, and even this annoyance he did not feel to any extent until the barometer had sunk to about 14 inches. . _ What renders this fact the more remarkable is, that during our ascent, particularly above the elevation of 16,000 feet, we bad been forcing our way upward with great velocity through a raege of currents which was running horizontally at the rate of about 60 miles an hour. At this period the roaring of the winds strongly resembled the noise produced at the time of 11 hurricane, as heard on the top of a high hill, and the tempe rature was at the same moment piercingly cold. At this alti tude I suffered severely from the effect of cold in my hands and feet. The greatest altitude we reached was 27,146 feet, indicat ing an elevation from the earth of 5 miles and 746 feet, the barometer at this period having fallen from 30.50 to 1 1, a nd the thermometer from 61 to 5, or 27 degrees below the freez ing point. Shortly after we had commenced our downward course vre discovered there was something falling which very much bore the appearance and consistency of snow. To this circumstan ce I directed the attention of Mr. Rush, whereupon we looked aloft, when we found the sky to be more than usually thiekll studded with stars, and perfectly free from any mass in the shape of cloud. This result at the moment gave rise to no in considerable feeling of astonishment in our minds, especially as the snow continued to descend in large quantities. Upon an after consideration, however, I am inclined to think that the substance which fell was net snow, but the dew or moisture collected on the balloon, which had become congealed or frozen by the coldness of the temperature to which it had been su b ' jected in our pasage upwards. These particles adhered te, the netting and balloon, u n til an i ncrease d co ll a p se was cause". by the intentional voidance of gas ; and when that operative took effect they were removed by the motion of the netting• and fell in flakes like a shower of snow. This falling of flakes continued for a considerable time, and front its appear ance fully justified our original notion that it really was a, ser i shower. When we had descended to within about thr,:e miles of the earth, I imagined I perceived the sea bounded by Mr' line of the Sussex coast ; on mentioning thi s di scover y to Mr; Rush, that gentleman expressed it to be his opinion that villa` appeared to be water was nothing but fog. However, I pointed his attention to a place, a few miles 10 our right, which, from its being extensi ve ly li g hted up Wi th. gas, I considered to be Brighton, and eventually, after sonic considerable consultation, Mr. Rush admitted the proba bility of my supposition being correct. My opinion., was shortly afterwards borne out, for on our more ne a rly ap proaching terra firma we discovered the Castle of Lewes 1 :: be immediately beneath us. With Lewes and t.'ne surround ing ing country, of which I was in perfect ignorance, Mr. Ku sh was well acquainted. Of course from" our vicinity to the. ocean, there was n° time to be lost in effecting our descent ; I therefore, made in quiries of Mr. Rush as to the nat:tre of the locality in resp ect , to water and hills, and from the information he afforded ne e , t found that it would be necessary to effect a landing itnivu dl ,-", ately on the south side of the town, where a beautiful level CA tered itself for our reception. Accordingly we hovered over Lewes until we camr ; i n to the northerly current, which I was aware we must fall i n wit h at a particular elevation. When, therefore, the balloe,n came within the operation of that wind, we glided on until we ar rived above a field behind the residence of the Rev. id. We st ' in Southover, when we effected our descent. The ' A ppearanc e of the balloon floating o ver th e town o f L ewes see:ned to ex cite considerable sensatio n among t h e i n h a bi tants, and we c alla discern many persons running to our assistance. We left the Royal Gardens at half-past six, and lan ded again at Lewes (a distance of about fifty miles) at a quarter before eight o'clock, having performed the trip in an " Et and a quarter. I must remark, that during our ascent and descent, above the three miles and a half, I suffered more severely fr 001 the intensity of the cold than on any former occasion, esp'ecially la the hands and feet. From this infliction Mr. Rush. apPe are to be free. In this asc en t we had a d ou bl e a d vantage vt ith re spect witnessing a setting sun, for prior to our qut.tting the ea.ng that operation of na t ure h a d ta k en place, and on our reach i an altitude of ab ou t 12,500 f eet, we were cnee more Within",,,(l the action of the r a y s o f t h a t or b , whose se'cting was a sr 11 time observed i n th e course o f a quarter of an hour. 111;.. probability Mr. Rush and myself are the only two bun iall ce• rags who have ever b een w i tnesses to the same occ urrell ked After the balloon and its appendages 'had been carefully P ee w o , up, and arran gemen t s ma d e f or their conveyance to town.. , ,- proceeded t o B r i g h ton , from tvloich plac e I d e parted for I; O n' - don on the following morning." b 0 It is a somewhat sin gu l ar co i nc id ence that Mr. B 1 , ; 5 ": s ,f had proposed to leave t own on t h e following day, for "" b e le Elsenham-hall, near S a ff ron W e ld on, i n Essex, shoe l ." "got been put down by the balloon on the occasion of ti.'eana ascent within five m il es o f t h at p l ace ; and that on the se b - eeo trip, he having com e u p f rom B r i g h ton, be shou ld ha ve bii landed seven or eight miles only from that town, vg O re family are sojourning. SILVER, TEA AND COFFEE sERV IC9;o0 T. COX SAVORY, 47 , C ornh i ll, London (Seven Loorsteo. Gracechurch.street), o ff ers f or selection knelt:ant and 11 105 t 11 sive assortment of Silver Tea Services, - farying in pri,ca from 3o/., the service • f T eapot, Sugar liasin, and WU( E' r f r 4 0: ground.floor, and fi rst, second, an..a third doors, are fitted „obit" pressly for the display of Plate and Plated Goods, and c . Cal" is given gratis, with Drawings, and a list c,f prices. 7 Cor f " SAVORY, Go!dsmith, Watu . hmaker, and Silversmith , 4 ' hill, London. B lR TH S. At Esk Moia, Forfarshire, Scotland, on the 7th i ni t .. ' t he lady of W. M. Kerr, Esq., of a son. , r o t- On the 13th i ns t., a t With am , E ssex , th e w if e o f J a cob i .1. tisscin, Esq.. of a daughter. h ire, On the 13th inst., Mrs. Henry •Drury, Myddelt, in-s 4 of a son. , f. ll ' . On the 13th inst., in Upp er B roo k- street, th e 1.2,1 v 16 3 , '.' I quhar, of a son. OO On the 13th in s t., a t G rosvenor-p l ace, L a dy M a ' r , o n, °I a . and heir. On the 14th inst., in Finsbury-place, Mrs. Itr,wland W ilk° ' °f son. Nesbit ° On the 14th i ns t., a t St oc k we ll , t h e lad- y of Henry Esq., of Bedford- row , o f a son. ---. ______---- MAX PIE. P . , o vli On the 11th inst., at Danbury, son of J. G. Walford, Esq., Tot ' , Voodlands, Chigvvell, L5:;10.9-' Maria,_ eldest daughter of J. ~ Spencer Phillips, Esq.' # ham Lodge, in the same cou-„ ty. - I 'Ai' r o o., On the 12th inst„ at 1 - , Frederick Walford, Es,cl''%t& otherham, Thomas Stwatfeild s'lf„gtor Esq., eldest son of street, and of Se': en Oaks, Kent, to Emily,. youngest ° T :nomas Lightfoot, Eiq o f Old thi,t i pite r of Henry Walk:cr, Esq., of Clifton House, N rlishire. ne tt ' .1 pe n lox On the Pltli inst., at St. Ebbe's, OxfoA, the Rel. - *l a te I°- M. A., 0.: Christchurch, to Elizabeth, °ult . child of the - o f Eykl; n , E sq . s'l''' On the 13th inst., at Weybridge, Daniel Darling, Leadenhall-street, to Elizabeth Helen Legg. •cltvr d i lip l-- roY On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, Walthamstow, 11 °' i. o ntle h Falkner, - Esq., or Newark, to Alici nd William "'_, joseP Street, Esq., of Upper Hemerton, to hia, daughters u' Trueman, Esq., of Walthamstow. t SI; On the 15th in s t., a t S t. P anczas irch, 11.z.chard 19a e r t13, °° of Albion-stre e t, H y d e P ar k , to E llen Grace E ll-4 .... daughter of the late Willir. - ,n Webb, Esq, ___.------<- —_-___ is a s ile, On the 12th i ns t. , at Brighton D , Thomas- Pearson C r° 08. Esq., Cot - moulder, Royal Nay age of On the 12th 'lost., at Clanto 3 n-terrace, Mrs. Wellingstsewell9,.. 04 the 12th hnt., at Wicthill House, Berks. Lad}' S i PP?' Cumb " l " 4- streett Pertruan- quare, therelvicict of the 'a te Coart'.: the Island of Malta. ' ew4l, D..C.L , torn:cid Judges -to nibl,. .Abercro At Tunbridge Wells, on the 13(h • t Mrs. i • 1 14- of Arthur Abercrorohy, Es of 'l . 'ls •' h. e liar ,te On the 14th h - nt , Frai.. q:, ~. assaug: z , , _ if , 0 . f ee'..s Mary, aged 1 " o zaril, of Vin , bary-s; k uar- 4 , • Esq . ' tin the 13th ,-- ' - • C. Aberoon.. tst. , at Norwood, Francis fel- Lloyd's r- - i ' 13th b . 7. 'llO - , E sq. ' ~yn the 13th inst., at Eton College, Charles Will ' i 11 1- Y -of e-Adrniralty lbw of King's College, Cambridge. Aged 30. . r . t ine.' On the 13th inst at T ' •VI Poxleyt 1)-en ' •, - tuxes .. _1 s, . • s ( l'' Afacs ulaYt Ire lingss orth, Esq., aged, 78. On the 13th inst., t . ..t St. John's Wood, James , ~,,r ol iu, of Victori,a-place, Belia:,t, 001 bg.t, aged 74. (lb M i ' Oti the 1 4. th hist., at Troy Rectory, near Iltronrabti. gr• '' Talbot. and Ben ISeagh :douse ,-. Oh, the 29th tilt„ at Canterbury, -Hobert Cliiiholfet Esq " agc(ll.-32. I' /0 I'rinteil anti Pabri,lietl 1111J11130 VO u ' t b e 0969 11-2, Straail, tit Tha San Office;No. 111, S tra nd, in of AJitidlesex.—Zictatiay, Seviember 17, lea,.